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Puzzle Created Author Color Moves Difficulty
575120-Aug-08awe64 -- W7
(1)
575020-Aug-08deeken -- Same thing almost except a bishop and position. Use that to your advantage. W4
(0)
574920-Aug-08coolistdude -- W3
(3)
574820-Aug-08anarchessist -- "Little boxes on the kingside...." alois vs. anarchessist, from a GK game. It's a simple mate, of co…B4
(3)
574720-Aug-08throneseeker -- PLM # 2008-33B4
(10)
574620-Aug-08coolistdude -- If you can't find the solution after 1 minute, you are thinking too hard. Watch some tv or go on you…
Improved by: heinzkat (mate in 3) mate in 4
Alt. solutions: heinzkat
W3
(11)
574520-Aug-08throneseeker -- PLM # 2008-32
Alt. solutions: eljack
B5
(9)
574420-Aug-08tugger -- ok, perhaps i didn't get every start move in... there's more than 18... the scroll bar on my tableba…
Alt. solutions: heinzkat , eljack, lspottswood , winks
W7
(5)
574320-Aug-08dasman -- Chess puzzles for dummies, part 12. LOAS! Dummy learns how to eat with pawns and how to avoid a stal…
Alt. solutions: dasman , eljack
W7
(5)
574220-Aug-08tugger -- this happens to be the longest forced checkmate (with best play from both) possible with just these …W7
(6)
574120-Aug-08mfeeney93 -- B3
(7)
574020-Aug-08lardo -- W2
(8)
573919-Aug-08concordborn --
Alt. solutions: concordborn, eljack
W6
(5)
573819-Aug-08dariustheking -- dariustheking puzzle #36 (easy)
Improved by: alex_p_84 (mate in 5) mate in 7
Alt. solutions: eljack, heinzkat , codebreaker
W5
(6)
573719-Aug-08tugger -- still plenty of main line alternative solutions...
Alt. solutions: tugger
W13
(5)
573619-Aug-08mokru -- An entertaining blitz game.B3
(12)
573519-Aug-08anarchessist -- Anarchessist vs. His Friend, Southern California, 2008 - In the over-the-board game, my friend and I…
Alt. solutions: elevinski, tugger, eljack
W7
(3)
573419-Aug-08throneseeker -- PLM # 2008-32W2
(10)
573319-Aug-08grov89 --
Alt. solutions: heinzkat
W2
(10)
573219-Aug-08anarchessist -- Tal vs. NN, 1963 - Immediately prior to this position, Tal sacrificed his rook on the d6 square. The…W7
(19)
573119-Aug-08fikzter -- Thanks Heinzkat! Very easy puzzle. But I was kind of shocked to see that this position still needed …
Improved by: heinzkat (mate in 4) mate in 5
Alt. solutions: heinzkat , eljack
W4
(11)
573018-Aug-08deeken -- B3
(15)
572918-Aug-08tugger -- tons of alternative solutions, i'm getting bored, have fun finding them...
Alt. solutions: heinzkat , anarchessist, tugger
W8
(13)
572818-Aug-08fresh7 -- This happened to me in a game, I was white and missed it the first time around.W2
(22)
572718-Aug-08soultosqueeze -- From a recent game, slightly modified. LoAS.
Improved by: polladam (mate in 5) mate in 6
Alt. solutions: soultosqueeze , polladam, eljack, heinzkat
B5
(7)
572618-Aug-08tugger -- george w bush vs tugger..... i was beating him soundly, when i went to the toilet. i came back, and…B3
(10)
572518-Aug-08throneseeker -- PLM # 2008-31W2
(14)
572418-Aug-08throneseeker -- PLM # 2008-30
Improved by: heinzkat (mate in 3) mate in 4
Alt. solutions: heinzkat
W3
(12)
572318-Aug-08mesic --
Alt. solutions: soultosqueeze
W3
(10)
572218-Aug-08throneseeker -- PLM # 2008-29 "Take my queen, please!!!"
Alt. solutions: soultosqueeze
W2
(14)
572118-Aug-08heinzkat -- Quite aesthetically pleasing; composer unknown.W2
(21)
572018-Aug-08nuntar -- Overlooked mate in five in animusrex -- peice, a GK game I found browsing the annotated games archiv…W5
(15)
571918-Aug-08heinzkat -- Ivanchuk - Kamsky, Moscow 2008.W3
(12)
571818-Aug-08heinzkat -- Tsharotshkin - Hanko, Dortmund 1992.W4
(9)
571718-Aug-08heinzkat -- Shramyatnikov - Petrov, 1975.B4
(5)
571618-Aug-08sherbert --
Improved by: sherbert (mate in 2) mate in 4
W2
(12)
571518-Aug-08dasman -- Chess puzzles for dummies, part 11. I'll stop when I make puzzle no. 100. By then the dummy is a cas…
Improved by: heinzkat (mate in 6) mate in 7
Alt. solutions: dasman , heinzkat , winks, alex_p_84
W6
(10)
571418-Aug-08heinzkat -- Goldstein - Tomilin, Tashkent 1965. The better version of puzzle #131 (Qe8->d8). W7
(8)
571318-Aug-08tugger -- was indeed a shorter solution...
Improved by: heinzkat (mate in 7) mate in 9
B7
(5)
571217-Aug-08grov89 --
Improved by: eljack (mate in 3), eljack (mate in 4), eljack (mate in 6) mate in 8
Alt. solutions: eljack
W3
(10)
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